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# Best One Liner
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David Korn
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AT&T Bell Labs
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MH 3C-526B, AT&T Bell Labs
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Murray Hill, NJ
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07974
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US
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## To build:
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make all
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```
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## To use:
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```sh
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./korn
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```
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## Judges' remarks:
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The Judges believe that this is the best one line entry ever received.
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Compile on a `UNIX` system, or at least using a C implementation that
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Compile on a UNIX system, or at least one using a C implementation that
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fakes it. Very few people are able to determine what this program
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does by visual inspection. I suggest that you stop reading this
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section right now and see if you are one of the few people who can.
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Several points are important to understand in this program:
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Several points are important to understand this program:
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1. What is the symbol `unix` and what is its value in the program? Clearly
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`unix` is not a function, and since `unix` is not declared to be a data type
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char *x;
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defines a pointer to a character (i.e. an address), and that the `=` assigns
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defines a pointer to a `char` (i.e. an address), and that the `=` assigns
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things of compatible types. Since:
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x = "have";
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is legal C, what type of value is `"have"`?
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?
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David Korn's `/bin/ksh` provides us with a greatly improved version of
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the /bin/sh. The source for v7's /bin/sh greatly inspired this contest.
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[David
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Korn](https://news.slashdot.org/story/01/02/06/2030205/david-korn-tells-all)'s
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[/bin/ksh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KornShell) provides us with a greatly
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improved version of the [/bin/sh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourne_shell).
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The source for [v7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Version_7_Unix)'s /bin/sh
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greatly inspired this contest.
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## Author's remarks:
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